Chapter 9 Pedro Blanco, the Accursed Slave Driver: Literature and Historical Memory of Slavery in Spain

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1 The Legacies of Slavery in the Archive
6. Chapter 1 The Houseboys of Fernando Poo: Domestic Service in Spanish Colonial Africa 19
7. Chapter 2 Echoes of the Spanish Slave Trade in Nineteenth-Century London 49
8. Chapter 3 Cosmetic of the Archive 73
9. Chapter 4 From Slavery to Anti-Black Racism 95
10. Part 2 Confronting the Legacies of Slavery in Cultural Memory Sites
11. Chapter 5 Confronting the Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism in Public Spaces: Debates around Racist and Colonial Monuments in Modern Catalonia 119
12. Chapter 6 Spain and the Year of Toppled Statues of Enslavers and Colonizers 153
13. Chapter 7 Memorialized Blackness 191
14. Chapter 8 Public Memory Policies in Spain 209
15. Part 3 Interpreting the Legacies of Slavery in Literature, Music, and Visual Culture
16. Chapter 9 Pedro Blanco, the Accursed Slave Driver: Literature and Historical Memory of Slavery in Spain 221
17. Chapter 10 Searching for Cayetana’s Daughter 243
18. Chapter 11 The Urgency of a Black Iberian Thought 273
19. Chapter 12 On Making Art from Hidden Places 281
20. Chapter 13 Hispano-tropicalism 291
21. Contributors 301
22. Index 309